File #: 20563    Version: 0 Name: Legal Services Agreements - County Counselor
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 11/17/2020 In control: Finance and Audit Committee
On agenda: 11/23/2020 Final action: 11/30/2020
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute addenda to the Legal Services Agreements with certain law firms, at an increased aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $16,275.00.
Sponsors: Theresa Cass Galvin
Indexes: COUNTY COUNSELOR, LEGAL SERVICES AGREEMENT
Attachments: 1. 20563bu.pdf, 2. 20563adopt.pdf, 3. 20563 Husch Blackwell 3rd Addendum Rock Island.pdf

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute addenda to the Legal Services Agreements with certain law firms, at an increased aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $16,275.00.

 

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 20563, November 23, 2020

 

INTRODUCED BY Theresa Cass Galvin, County Legislator

 

Body

 WHEREAS, the County Counselor recommends that he be authorized to execute addenda to the Legal Services Agreements with certain lawyers and law firms to continue to provide legal services to the County in complex litigation and other matters for which they have been retained; and,

 

WHEREAS, the lawyers and law firms for whom contracts are recommended, the services to be provided, and not to exceed amounts for services to be performed in 2020 are as follows:

Law Firm                                                                                    Matter                                                                                                                              Amount

Husch Blackwell                                                               State Law Real Property Takings                                          $13,000

Kansas City, MO                                                               Claim

 

HF Law Firm LLC                                                               HR Investigations                                                                                        3,275

Kansas City, MO

                                                                                                                     _________

                                                                                                                                                                        Total                         $16,275

 

now therefore,

 

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute Legal Services Agreements with the law firms and lawyers identified in this Resolution, at an aggregate cost to the County not exceed $16,275.00; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of the Department of Finance and Purchasing be and hereby is authorized to make all payments, including final payments on the contracts.

 

 

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date:  This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.

 

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

_______________________________              ______________________________

Chief Deputy County Counselor                     County Counselor                     

 

 

Certificate of Passage

 

I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 20563 of November 23, 2020, was duly passed on November 30, 2020 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

Yeas _______9__________                                          Nays ______0_______

 

 

Abstaining ____0_______                                          Absent _____0_______

 

 

 

 

__________________________                     ______________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                   Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature

 

 

 

Fiscal Note

There is a balance otherwise unencumbered to the credit of the appropriation to which the expenditure is chargeable and there is a cash balance otherwise unencumbered in the treasury to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made each sufficient to provide for the obligation herein authorized.

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:    001 1101 56020

ACCOUNT TITLE:          General Fund

                                                                      County Counselors

                                                                             Legal Services

NOT TO EXCEED:                            $16,275.00

 

 

 

______________________                                          _________________________________

Date                                                         Interim Chief Administrative Officer